I recently bought a Systemax laptop (www.globalcomputer.com) because I was dissatisfied with most of the major-brand laptops on the market. Nevertheless, even this computer isn't exactly a dream linux machine. A couple of things to consider:
a. does the laptop feature intel centrino technology? mine does, but there's no support for the intel minipci wireless card in linux as of yet. also, speedstep for the pentium-m doesn't seem to be supported in the 2.4.2* kernels, although I hear that it is in the 2.6.* series. also, the 2.4.* kernels don't seem to recognize my cpu cache (/proc/cpuinfo reports cache size: 0 KB), although again I hear the 2.6.* kernels do. I haven't tried it yet; I don't know. b. other acpi support, which can be dependent on your bios. call technical support as ask them about this. will your laptop be able to sleep and wake up, suspend, hibernate? mine does, but I could never get this to work on my old Dell laptop. c. video card. i know lots of people report problems with ATI mobility cards, so you may have to resort to framebuffer if you can't get a driver to add hardware acceleration. perhaps i'm lucky, my ATI card seems to be working fine with X at the moment. I would look at the laptops made by some of the smaller brands, youu'll likely find a cheaper machine that works just about as well as any other laptop out there as far as linux support goes. It depends whats most important to you. I chose a cheap, light notebook that has slight linux compatibility problems, but I knew this going into it, and I don't regret anything. Whatever works for you. other laptop users, what did i leave out? eric heller On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 22:34, Elric Scott wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > I am currently looking at the HP Pavilion zd7000 and the Compaq Evo N800W. > Which laptop will have the least problems, and the most efficiancy? > > > - Elric > > "We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible, > for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, > we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing." - Mother Theresa > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE/lbSNWOxHc22toikRAplBAJ9PgxaB+4yM/d/CQQIKYNMb7g4S8QCfWInh > ZifzK9iv0X3zIOLa1M84zLU= > =Bqxc > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
